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Old 02-04-2021, 01:46 PM
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I have been helping administer vaccines (both Pfizer and Moderna) to healthcare workers in a Chicagoland hospital for the past 6 weeks and majority of complaints were a sore arm. I can honestly say that complaints were very similar for both groups. Some had flu like symptoms that last about a day. We advise people not to take anti-inflammatories prophylacticly as it may decrease the effectiveness of the vaccine. However, if fever, soreness, etc occurs after vaccine, it is ok to take then. And I also observed that the older population of people I vaccinated tolerated it better than the younger ones. All in all, these symptoms were far from the devastation I have seen in the past year from Covid-19! Good luck and God bless!!
Thank you for your educated, first person post. More importantly, thank you for your hard work at this difficult time.